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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827916103321

Autore

Dickey Frances <1970->

Titolo

The modern portrait poem : from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ezra Pound / / Frances Dickey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2012

ISBN

1-282-13865-0

9786613808035

0-8139-3269-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Disciplina

809.1/03

Soggetti

Poetry, Modern - History and criticism

Portraits - History

Art, Modern - Influence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Portraiture in the Rossetti circle: window, object, or mirror -- Ezra Pound: portraiture and originality -- T. S. Eliot: getting out of the picture -- Contraction: from picture sonnet to epigram -- Expansion: Ezra Pound and avant-garde portraiture -- Pastoral mode: William Carlos Williams and nativist portraiture -- Coda: Rossetti and E. E. Cummings.

Sommario/riassunto

In bridging historical periods, national boundaries, and disciplinary distinctions, Dickey makes a case for the continuity of this genre over the Victorian/Modernist divide and from Britain to the United States in a time of rapid change in the arts.